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fessor of chemical hygiene in the school of 

 hygiene and public health of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University. 



Major 0. B. Zimmerman, formerly liaison 

 officer between the Army Engineer Corps and 

 the Bureau of Standards, has accepted a posi- 

 tion with the International Harvester Com- 

 pany in Chicago. 



, Captain D. L. Williams, formerly of the 

 department of chemistry of the College of the 

 City of New York, who has been at the Ameri- 

 can University as executive officer, has been 

 honorably discharged and will probably go 

 into business. 



, E. O. Pippin, extension professor of soil 

 technology at Cornell University, has secured 

 a leave of absence for one year, during which 

 time he will act as director of the Agricultural 

 Bureau of the National Lime Producers Asso- 

 ciation. 



, Mr. Chester H. A. Hammill has resigned 

 from the geological department of the Eoxana 

 Petroleimi Company in order to undertake in- 

 dependent work at Dallas, Texas. 



Mr. James M. Hill, Jr., is on leave of ab- 

 sence from the Geological Survey, engaged in 

 prospecting for platinum in Colombia. 

 , Dr. H. Foster Bain has resigned from the 

 Bureau of Mines and will sail from Vancouver 

 this month to continue his explorations in 

 China for New York mining interests. 



Dr. J. W. T. DuvEL, who for many years was 

 crop technologist in charge of grain standardi- 

 zation investigations. Bureau of Markets, U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, has resigned 

 to accept a position with the United States 

 Food Administration Grain Corporation, at 42 

 Broadway, New York. Dr. Duvel was loaned 

 to the Grain Corporation during the latter part 

 of the war and for six months previously he 

 made an investigation of the wheat situation 

 in Australia for the Bureau of Markets, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, and for the U. S. 

 Pood Administration. 



The Howard Taylor Eicketts Prize of two 

 hundred and fifty dollars, awarded annually 

 in May to the student showing the best ability 

 in research work in bacteriology or pathology 



at the University of Chicago, has been divided 

 between Mr. Frederick W. Mulsow and Mr. 

 Emanuel B. Fink, both of whom are doctors 

 of philosophy. The prize is given in memory 

 of Professor Howard Taylor Eicketts, who died 

 in Mexico from a contagion he was investi- 

 gating. 



I Professor B. B. Boltwood, director of the 

 Yale Chemical Laboratory, has addressed 

 Sigma Xi of Brown University on "Eadioac- 

 tivity and its bearing on chemical theories." 

 I Dr. John M. Dodson, dean of Eush Medical 

 College, in affiliation with the University of 

 Chicago, and chairman of the council on med- 

 ical education of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation, delivered the address at the commence- 

 ,ment exercises of the medical department of 

 the University of Texas. 



At a meeting in Birmingham last week of 

 representatives of the engineering profession 

 and others, a provisional plan for celebrating 

 the centenary of the death of James Watt was 

 agreed upon. It includes the endowment of a 

 chair of engineering at the university. 



The ninth annual May lecture of the Insti- 

 tute of Metals, London, was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor F. Soddy on " Eadio-activity," on May 

 19. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that to honor the memory of the 

 eminent Spanish histologist, Achucarro, whose 

 untimely death was chronicled last year, his 

 family has founded a prize of 1,000 pesetas to 

 be awarded biannually for the best work that 

 has been published in the four preceding years 

 on normal or pathologic histology. The prize 

 will be awarded alternately in Spain and 

 abroad. In Spain it can be given for the best 

 work on general biology or the total works of 

 an author, as well as for work in histology. 

 Abroad, the field is limited to histology of the 

 nervous system. The board of awards con- 

 sists of Professors Eamon y Cajal and L. 

 Simarro, with the laymen, the marques de 

 Palomares and Severino Achucarro. The prize 

 is to be awarded this year to a Spanish writer. 



The opening lecture of the graduate sum- 

 mer quarter in medical sciences at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Chicago, HI., will be de- 



